Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-03-03
NEWS FROM CONGRESS.
SENATE:

/
! SENATE:
Senator Plumb, from the committee on pub
| lie lands. o-day reported the senate bill Tor
| the relief of purchasers and other grantees
of the United States OF certain swamp and
/ overlooked lands, and to reimburse and IN
/ demnify certain states This bill was lntro-
duced by MIR. Spooner, and provides:
/ 1t shall be the duty of the proper officers OF
! the treasury and interior departments to adjust
and settle the claims OF any stLte against tne
may hereafter be sold or othery1s ulsposed OF
4 by the United States that were included in any
i That for ali OF said lands in any state which
| were sold for cash the said state shall
have credit for the full amount OF the purchase
money received by the United States as OF the
last day of the year in which it were received
| and the same shall be applied to the payment OF
| the Indebtedness, If any, OF such state 60 the
| United States and the balance less such sums
| as NAV heretofore been paid or credited as
aforesaid shall be paid over TO the said state.
An amendment was made providing that
the amount returned in lieu of the lands
should be at the price per acre fixed by the
state for thi: land and ii the state had not
| fixed n price on its land a fair valuation
should be arranged between the United
States and the state to which the money
was TO be paid
IN THE HOUSE.
! Mr. Henderson On o.l, from the committee
i on elections, submitted q report on J0e lnui-
ana contested election case of Kidd against
Steele. and it was laid over until Thursday
The report, which is unanimous, confirms
| the right of the contestee (Steele) to the
seat 1t was ordered that the hour for the
daily meeting of the house shall be IL
o'clock.
IN THE SENATE
/ Senator Sherman resigned the Presi-
/ dency OF the Senate. IL is thought that
Mr.. Hoar will succeed him.
The presiding officer presented commu
| nication from the secretary of the interior
/ in reply to resolution inquiring as to any
rule in tine pension Office denying hearing
| to applicants who have applied to congress
! for reiiaf. Tine secretary encloses a copy of
the decision on that subject made by Assist
| ant Secretary jerks in February, 1886, and
says that the matter had not been called 10
his attention by appeal or otherwise
THE DAILY vEroEs.
/ The presiding officer presented messages
/ from the president disappearing pension bills
for Rachel Ann Pierrepont and Jacob Smith,
because like pensions had been granted to
them regularly through the pension office
antedating the period when pensions under
| these special acts would take effect; also a
| pension bill for John ID. Fineher on the ground
| of the absence of disability. The presiding
officer presented memorials from thirteen
| posts of the Grand Army of the Republic for
the passage Of the dependent pension bill
| over the presidents veto, and like memorials
were presented by other senator's The bull
| to provide for the retirement of United
States legal tender and national bank notes
| or small denominations and the issue of coin
certificates, was reported adversely. The
| bill making appropriations for tho expenses
| of the government of the District OF Column
bia, and the bill making appropriations for
the military academy, passed The senate
/ took up the house bull to enlarge the powers
and duties of the department of agriculture,
and to create an executive department, to
| be known as the department of agriculture
/ and labor. and was addressed by Mr.. Miller
| In explanation and advocacy of it The bill
went over as unfinished business The house
amendments to the sundry civil bill We're
| presented and were disagreed to in bulk and
| q conference asked
THE LOWER HOUSE
Mr. Bland, as a privileged question, called
| up the vetoed bill increasing the pension of
John W. Farris He bore testimony from a
| personal knowledge of the claimant to the
merit OF the claim and asked that the house
| pass the bill over the veto The house re-
| fused to do this-yeas 1872, nays 90 The
house resumed in committee of the whole
| the consideration of senate amendments to
| the sundry civil appropriation bill. The
| recon IN endations of the committee having
| been adopted. conference was ordered
! The house went into committee OF the
| whole on the senate amendments to the
/ postof1ice bill The only section not con-
CURED in was the one approprlating $780,
| 600 for the transportation of foreign mails
| by American steamships 10 Southern and
Central America and Brazil. Mr. Burrows
| moved a concurrence and spoke in favor of
| his motion. Pending further debate, the
| committee rose, and the house adopted reso-
buttons of regret at the death of Senator
| Pike of New Hampshire, after several eulo-
| gies had been delivered
SENATE
WASHINGTON, Feb EXPEDITIONS in very
large numbers from Grand Army posts, ask
ing for the passage of the dependent pension
| bill over the presidents veto, were presented
from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Con-
necticut, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New
1 York, Iowa and Maine conference report
/ on the pension appropriation bill was pre-
sentsd and agreed TO. The senate took up
the pleuto- p6olp pnia bill Mr Mcpherson
| moved to posess56e it till tomorrow and to
| proceed to consideration of the house joint
! resolution for the investigation of the Pa
| cific railroad. The motion was defeated
yeas 81, nays 3l-a strict party vote, except
1 that Mr.. Van Nyck voted with the Demo-
/ Gratis in the affirmative Mr.. Hoar gave
| notice that he would tomorrow ask the SEN
| ate to assign a unexpectedly 2 O'Clock
| Friday-for the consideration of the Pacific
| railroad inquiry bill. Mr. FRYE made an APP
! peal to the senate TO consider a message from
/ the president yetoing the bill that would
! allow arrearages OF pension TO Ii ). Hopkins,
! Maine volunteer. He described the case
! as a remarkable exceptional one and said
| that the president had not the information
| which he (Frye) now gave the senate Mr..
| Cockrell said:
The facts, if made known to the pension
| bureau, would have justified an allowance OF the
| arIearages OF pension: and IL they had been
| brought to the attention of the president he
! would not have vetoed the bill
The bill was passed over the veto by a
Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Coke, Harris and
| Vance
THE REPRESENTATIVES,.
rP report on the bill relating
) mackerei season was
went into committee
senate amendments to
iation bill. A long de-
amendment appro-
n mali service with
erica The committee
ok to the house, witt
tt the amendment !
re vote was postponed
yATE.
effect a Encouragement
.utant generals depart
nsidered the bill to extir-
Lro-pneumonia, foot and
lrinderpest among cattle
che expectation of cattle
s of live stock. After some
Lmunds gave notice of an
which he would offer as a sub
| stitute Ae bill:
| 1t proposed an appropriation of 81 ZOO. 900 70
be expended under the direction of the presi-
dent and in his discretion, tErough the commits
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